This article explores the unexpected discovery of a significant divergence between the strong feelings of safety and belonging reported in a school and neighborhood safety survey, and the discursive, contradictory, and complex narratives about safety revealed by students' storytelling through theater and narratives shared with researchers in a…

The purpose of the current study is to examine the discourses in the education-themed TED/TEDx presentations within the framework of critical pedagogy and neoliberal understanding. The study was designed as a case study in the qualitative research method. Data were collected by using the document analysis method and descriptive analysis was…

Due to the current COVID-19 reality and the protests supporting the #BlackLivesMatter Movement following the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, seeking diversified and innovative educational solutions like ethnic studies (ES) and adapting to the everchanging needs of students by creating supportive healing spaces of…

The use of video games in schools is not new. However, classroom use of video games may be poised for a dramatic shift as billion dollar video game franchises such as "Assassin's Creed" and "Minecraft" continue to invest in features aimed at facilitating the use of these games for education (Egbert & Borysenko, 2018;…

As teacher identity construction is "a complex matter of the social and individual, of discourse and practice, of reification and participation, of similarity and difference, of agency and structure, of fixity and transgression, of the singular and the multiple" (Clarke, 2009), this study explores the connection between the personal and…

The Marshallese are a new immigrant population in the United States that has experienced inequitable educational outcomes. Since school closures disproportionately affect high-poverty populations (Berkman, 2008; Cauchemez et al., 2009) and many Marshallese fall within this demographic, the authors wondered whether educational inequities might be…

Recent scholarship has focused on the vital role of social movement organizations as key pathways into activism. Yet attention to how learning unfolds within social movement organizations has not been adequately studied. Informed by critical learning sciences, we investigated Kokua Hawaii, a social movement organization that catalyzed a near half…

This article studies the educational choices that secular and religious professional and managerial middle-class parents in Istanbul make for their children. It explores the ways in which class intersects with religion in Turkey where, politics, culture, social, and even economic life are marked by a deep divide among the religious and the…

Through exploration of Black Caribbean youths' feelings of unbelonging and exclusion in Ontario schools, this paper argues that how Whiteness is systemically engrained in the education system negatively affects the learning experiences of Black youth due to predetermined measures of belonging. The present article draws on data from 32 qualitative…

School leaders face "one of the most important opportunities to influence social justice" (Cambron-McCabe & McCarthy, 2005, p. 208), but they cannot do this work alone. Teachers and school leaders must work together with students and families, who play a key role in student success (Epstein et al., 2009; Johnson, 2014). Too often,…

This study analyzes digital corporate media literacy content. The authors reviewed the various lesson plans and, when possible, "enrolled" in various online media courses. The study had three goals: (1) to determine what, exactly, digital corporate media literacy is teaching children and young people, (2) to see if there is merit in…

This study aims to show how digital youth leadership and activism on climate change has developed, what type of online discourse the movement has managed to channel in the fight against climate change and, above all, why the recently emerged #FridaysForFuture movement has succeeded, and not the classic adult environmental movement. The goals of…

This literature review examines 50 scholarly works published in the journal of "Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC)" from 2000 to 2020. Each "CSMC" article has been selected because it employs post-feminist, post-race and/or post-closet as categories to classify media discourse. The publication of 50 articles,…

Global shifts in the demographic composition of students has brought to the fore the importance of developing policies and practices that promote intercultural relationships among the diverse students who enroll in universities. One of the challenges students face in universities is integrating into the institutional culture and developing…

Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the World, with about 3,000-years of history. The country had its own traditional system of education before the introduction of modern or Western type of education in 1908. However, since the beginning of so called modern education in Ethiopia, the curriculum has been copied from western countries,…